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On Christmas Day, 1863, a beautiful poem was written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; A poem that would be set to music 9 years later and become a very beloved Christmas Song. It was entitled “I heard the bells on Christmas Day”, and like many of our most loved songs, it has a story behind it. The poem…

A Season of Peace Luke 1:26-38 The weeks leading up to Christmas should be a time of joy, peace, and love; but far too often they are times of uncertainty, frustration, worry and stress. When we find ourselves beginning to be caught up in the materialism of the season, we must stop and refocus by remembering…

Christmas is filled with all sorts of images, sights, and sounds. Christmas lights, Christmas trees, Santa Clause, reindeer, candy canes, gifts, wreaths, mistletoe, nativity scenes, a baby in a manger. Mary and Joseph. All these things show up everywhere and remind us of the themes that we have been…

Rejoice, the Lord is with you. Gabriel presents seven facts that result in rejoicing. “And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name Him Jesus. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, had to be free from human sin nature transmitted to all humanity from Adam. Born of a human mother,…

How do we define joy? Joy is closely related to gladness and happiness, although in the NT, joy is more a state of being than an emotion - a result of the choice to know and meditate on the character and promises of God. What is the source of joy? The source of joy in our lives comes from being in step…

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Introduction: Christmas is a time where we love to sing the carols. They remind us of happy memories and moments of Christmas’s past. My wife and I recently started a devotion leading up to Christmas that examines the message in the Christmas carols. Did you know that most of our most beloved carols…

The Saviour the world neeeds brings peace! It was prophisied, proclaimed and practiced.

I’ve told this story before. I like it so much that I wanted to tell it again. On Christmas Eve night 1914 something amazing happened. Something that still has the world scratching its head. It was at the beginning of WWI and there was a fierce battle going on in Belgium between the French and the English…

We are all looking for peace ( whole ness, rest , fulfill ment) Glory to God in the highest heaven, and peace on earth to people he favors! The angels claim that peace has been here all along ( Luke 2:14 ) Before COVID, 9/11, Jim Crow laws, two world wars, the holocaust, the great depression, the Spanish…

Setting the stage Heavenly announcement to Zacharias Heavenly announcement to Mary Today, heavenly announcement to some shepherds Jesus had just been born in a unlikely place. Scripture does not in Luke make any thing but one verse about it. 6 While they were there, the days were completed for her to…

1 Kings 1:1-31 Review 1 Sarah lived one hundred and twenty-seven years; these were the years of the life of Sarah. Summary of The Torah Portion: 1 Now Abraham was old, well advanced in age; and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. Old Well Advanced in Age This is the main center of the Halftarah.…

Morning 1 October 2023

The reality is that everything that God does in our live’s is good and something we do not deserve. God is always at work around us. He is working in our lives; pursuing us because he loves us. Listen to this quote from our High SchoolExperiencing God study... “When we are passionate about a goal, we…

I. Introduction 1. Prayers 2. Scripture memory 26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. Title and start Catch.. Lucien of Antioch (an early Christian believer) said, ‘A…

I. Introduction 1. Prayers Bible memory And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. Title Catch- What do angels get to see that we do not? Angels are amazing They are said to…

Matthew 28:1-10 Greatest plot twist of all times! The resurrection is the greatest plot twist of all time... Plot twist is when you are thinking it’s going to go one way but then it goes another Michael Jr. says humor is just a plot twist....get you thinking one thing and then it goes another 2 guys…

This morning we are going to look at the only passage of scripture that says anything about the childhood of Jesus. The other gospels do not say anything about the life of Jesus between his birth and the beginning of his public ministry. But Luke records an interesting incident. Over the last two weeks,…

Merry Christmas!!!! Over these last few weeks… as we’ve journeyed together through Advent… We’ve talked about a lot… We’ve looked at the Christmas story… We’ve seen it’s characters… We’ve heard from them… from their stories… from their struggles… Hopefully … we’ve learned something! The Christmas story…

There are a lot of things that we can and have taken away from these pages in scripture. However, there are only two things we are going to look at today. 1) The willingness of an individual to submit to God’s will and 2) That God is close to those that are seen as the powerless and the forgotten in…

4 But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, When the set time had fully come…God sent His Son! God made the most magnificent decision by choosing to come in the person of Jesus! Out of His love, He chose to make His dwelling among us! He chose to enter…

WHERE CAN GOD’S LOVE BE FOUND? Luke 2:8-12 “Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. Then the angel said…

Introduction Many times in life we think that we are not worthy of anything good. We may think that we are the outcasts, the no goods, the people who are always left out. We may think that what we do is pointless and wonder why we do it. Maybe we never get to go to the good things that others do. We…

Broken Dreams Have you ever had all your plans laid out, felt convinced you knew exactly what should happen, where it should happen and when it should happen? Then, everything turns out totally different from your plans; maybe exact opposite from your dreams. Last week we saw the announcement to Mary…

TEXT: LUKE 2:1-20 | ANYONE CAN CO GOD EXPLANATION: WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT THIS? Last week we looked at a forgotten character in the Christmas story: Simeon. While he is one that is easily missed in the story of Christ’s birth... There are few more recognizable characters surrounding the story…